Google to establish 1.7 million square-foot campus in New York City as part of $1 billion expansion

Google-zilla is expanding its Manhattan footprint with a $1 billion expansion that will swallow up a big swath of the far West Village and double its Big Apple workforce.

Google, based in Mountain View, Calif., will build a complex of more than 1.7 million square feet along the Hudson River across West St. from Pier 40, Ruth Porat, senior vice president and chief financial officer at Google and its parent company Alphabet, said in a blog post.

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"New York City continues to be a great source of diverse, world-class talent — that’s what brought Google to the city in 2000 and that’s what keeps us here," she said.

Porat said Google Hudson Square will be a product of lease agreements at 315 and 345 Hudson St., and a signed letter of intent for a lease at 550 Washington St. — a campus that would stretch from Spring St. near the Holland Tunnel north to Houston St.

The expansion — the latest high-tech move from Silicon Valley to the East Coast — builds on the company’s announcement earlier this year that it planned a $2.4 billion purchase of the Chelsea Market building in the Meatpacking District.

Google established its first New York presence nearly 20 years ago with a single salesperson operating out of a Starbucks.

The company has since grown in the city to 7,000 employees who speak 50 languages and work on a broad range of teams handling searches, maps, YouTube, sales and research. The company hopes to move into the Hudson Square campus by 2020.

“New York City continues to be a great source of diverse, world-class talent—that’s what brought Google to the city in 2000 and that’s what keeps us here,” Porat wrote.

“Big news: Google's latest expansion #inManhattan will mean more jobs and more opportunity for New Yorkers. It's our talent and diversity that makes us the top destination for tech companies,” de Blasio tweeted Monday.

The announcement comes just weeks after retail giant Amazon announced that it would set up an office complex in Long Island City, and bring with it a boatload of jobs.

Google, meanwhile, recently agreed to pay more than $100 million for a swath of land in downtown San Jose, California, for a big new campus that will include employee housing. Earlier this year, Google opened offices and data centers in Detroit, Los Angeles, Boulder, Colorado, Tennessee and Alabama.

Unlike Amazon’s move, Google’s New York expansion plans did not include any public competition between cities. The company also said it did not pursue or receive any tax incentives as part of its new expansion. There has also been no community outrage or protests.

“We believe that as our company grows, we have a responsibility to support the communities we call home,” .Porat said in the post. “That means supporting the infrastructure and services that make our neighborhoods unique places to work, live and play.”